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butter-ham

noun
/bʊtəɹam/

Etymology

From butter + ham, a calque of Dutch boterham.

  1. derived from hām
  2. compounded as butter-ham — “butter + ham”

Definitions

  1. A slice of buttered bread.

    • Give me a butterham, with flesh, and a half-bottle wine.

  2. One of two strips of trim on either side of a cloak.

    • A cloak, half a yard shorter than the Breeches, not through lin'd, but fac'd as far as 'twas turned back, with a pair of frugal butter-hams.

  3. a person who is overly ostentatious in their dress or actions.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA